Hamdi Niazi

Hamdi Niazi (18 August 1964-7 February 2006) was a former Iraqi Ba'ath Party member and officer in the Iraqi Popular Army who later led armed resistance to the United States occupation of Iraq in 2006.

Biography
Hamdi Niazi was born on 18 August 1964 in Baghdad, Iraq to a family of Sunni Muslim Bedouin. Niazi joined the Iraqi Ba'ath Party and the Iraqi Popular Army during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, and he rose to the rank of Captain during the Gulf War in 1991. Niazi was fanatically loyal to Saddam Hussein and his government, and after the United States deposed Saddam and occupied Iraq in 2003, Niazi was one of the organizers of a resistance movement in his home city, the capital. Niazi became the leader of a cell of Iraqi insurgents in the Sunni-majority areas of the capital, and in 2006 the USA launched Operation Sunset to clear the Sunni neighborhoods of his insurgents. He was killed in action in heavy fighting with the US Marine Corps.